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Customer Review
S. P.
5.0
Best dash cam I’ve owned so far.Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2020
First of all, it’s my opinion that everyone should have a dash cam. Even the nicest ones cost less than $200 and can save you a lot more than that in an insurance dispute.This is the 3rd model of dash cam I’ve bought. The first one was a cheap one that has a battery. I had bought 3 of them. And all of them died after one Georgia summer. After some research, I learned that the battery in those cams are not very heat tolerant. And probably not very cool tolerant either. That’s why my second dash cam had a capacitor.A capacitor and a battery serve the same function. After you turn your car off, the cam needs a little bit of power to finish saving the last bit of video, so it doesn’t get corrupted. This is important, because a crash can cut power to your car, and you would lose the last 3 seconds of video before the crash.So the second cam has been very good to me. It was very simple, and all 3 have worked for me for 6 years. I even made a few hundred bucks by selling a video of a car exploding on the Interstate. However, I wanted to record out the rear window as well. I was going to get another one of that same cam, but then discovered these dual camera systems.So I went with this one and I’m glad I did. The video quality is amazing compared to my old one. With my old one, I could read a license plate at about 5 feet away. With this one, the license plate is clear at 10 feet. And I’m sure I could figure out a license plate at a distance even farther away. Eight the rear cam, it is probably about 5 feet.The GPS feature is nice too. Although, you may want to be careful with that one if you speed a lot. If the GPS is being logged, it might put the fault on you if you were speeding.The install was easy. A small complaint might be that the cable going to the rear cam is a little thicker so it’s tougher to stuff into the trim. But it fit. And it makes sense that it’s thicker since it has to carry the video signal along with power.It remains to be seen how long it lasts, but it has the capacitor, so it should be good for that. It has a feature to keep recording when parked, but you have to hard wire so it has power when the car is off. I will probably set that up when I have time to get that kit.The only suggestion I could think of, is something I haven’t seen in any dash cam. I would like for them to have the main unit sit somewhere else, hidden away, with a cable running to the cams, so the cam that you stick to your windshield can be as small as the rear facing camera.I will update this review if I see any problems with this down the road.
